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S/SH: Settlement hierarchy
Representation ID: 57887
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Policy S/SH Settlement Hierarchy
Ickleton PC agrees with this policy, and accepts Ickleton’s designation as an Infill Village. The policy should help prevent speculative development in the least sustainable places.
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The rural southern cluster
Representation ID: 57907
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
There is fear in communities in the south, along the A1301 corridor, of a process of urbanisation from Stapleford to Saffron Walden. Major planning applications have been considered on a standalone basis, with scant consideration for cumulative or incremental impacts on landscape and existing settlements. A moratorium is required on proposals for large developments in the upper Cam valley. Water usage/stress, landscape impacts, and impacts on the fragile river/chalk stream environment to be reassessed once developments already permitted, or planned for in the current process or the Adopted Plan, are in place. Cross-border liaison under Duty to Cooperate is required.
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S/GC: Genome Campus, Hinxton
Representation ID: 57918
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Restrictions on intended tied housing for Campus workers should be rigorously applied.
Governance issue should be examined at an early stage to avoid swamping of existing Hinxton community by an expanded Genome Campus.
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S/RSC: Village allocations in the rural southern cluster
Representation ID: 57919
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Ickleton PC supports SCDC assessment of 2 sites in Parish, believes that site R/O 24 Brookhampton Street should also have been assessed unsuitable for development. Pleased that none of the sites to be taken forward..
Agrees that all the plots associated with the refused Agri-Tech Park are not suitable for development.
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BG/RC: River Corridors
Representation ID: 57931
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Ickleton PC suggests a moratorium on large development proposals in the upper Cam valley from Stapleford to the boundary with Essex until impacts of developments (including cumulative impacts) given permission in recent years or planned for in this and the adopted Local Plan are properly considered following the rollout of such developments. E.g., Huawei, Genome Campus, Sawston housing, Unity Campus, Whittlesford Parkway Area. This is essential if you are serious about protecting the River Cam and the landscape around it. Under the Duty to Cooperate with Uttlesford DC protection of the upper Cam valley should extend into that District.
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BG/PO: Protecting open spaces
Representation ID: 57934
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Ickleton PC strongly supports this policy. We are pleased to note that existing identified Local Green Spaces will be carried forward from the 2018 Adopted Plan.
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GP/LC: Protection and enhancement of landscape character
Representation ID: 57941
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Ickleton PC strongly supports this policy in all respects.
Preservation of landscape character is vital if fostering a sense of living in a great place is desired.
We agree the setting of villages in South Cambs should be protected and enhanced. We also specifically support the continued protection of identified Important Countryside Frontages.
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J/AL: Protecting the best agricultural land
Representation ID: 57948
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Ickleton PC supports this policy.
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S/SB: Settlement boundaries
Representation ID: 58052
Received: 12/12/2021
Respondent: Ickleton Parish Council
Ickleton PC strongly supports this policy. In the absence of such a policy, it would be difficult to prevent the encroachment of settlements on the countryside, and small rural communities could quickly lose their character. Potential rural exception sites would dry up while proposals based on maximising developer profits would predominate.